Spatial organization of proteins (dots) within a human cell: Each protein is placed according to its relationships with others; cellular compartments are denoted by color. During infection, some ...

Mining millions of AI-predicted structures reveals an evolutionarily conserved protein that resembles a receptor family ...

Proteins are essential molecules in living systems. They move, interact and organize themselves to carry out a wide range of functions, from helping cells communicate to forming structures inside the ...

Helmut Kirchhoff, professor in WSU's Institute of Biological Chemistry, holds a tray of plants inside his lab's automated phenotyping chamber. New research by Kirchhoff and a team of U.S. and ...

Research led by scientists at Washington State University has revealed insights on how plants form a microscopic landscape of proteins crucial to photosynthesis, the basis of Earth's food and energy ...

A new computer program developed at Berkeley Lab offers a faster and more accurate way to determine a protein’s structure. Known as AQuaRef, the program uses quantum-mechanical calculations and ...

In the wee hours of an October morning, David Baker, a protein biologist at the University of Washington (UW), received the most-awaited phone call in a scientist’s career. Halfway around the world, ...

On Wednesday, the Nobel Committee announced that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to researchers who pioneered major breakthroughs in computational chemistry. These include two researchers ...

Proteins are the molecular workhorses of cells. To understand their functions, scientists soon realized that they had to figure out proteins’ shapes. But solving a protein structure is a challenging ...